Li Xuan's words sounded like he cared about Li Xuan very much and was very considerate. However, after hearing what Li Xuan said, he spent half the night playing with several Xina's concubines, and he still wakes up alive today.
The pale-skinned Wang Wenhua's face instantly turned ashen, and the dozen or so other important ministers also had horrified expressions on their faces, but they all quickly lowered their heads!
Not feeling well?
Is it understandable if you don’t notice it for a while?
This is definitely not a good word. To say that Wang Wenhua is not in good health? Are you kidding me? Wang Wenhua is not sick or in trouble. He is in great health. From beginning to end of the year, he did not even catch a cold or cough once, and he always felt windy when he walked.
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Is it understandable that he failed to observe for a moment? Doesn’t this mean that Wang Wenhua was guilty of negligence?
Wang Wenhua, who was kneeling on the ground, looked a little dull at this time. After a while, he showed an expression that was uglier than crying, and said: "Thank you for your strength, Your Majesty. I also feel that I am not physically strong enough to do my job!"
At this time, he was not kneeling, but lying on the ground, saying in a tone that was almost like crying: "I beg for the bones!"
Li Xuan, however, showed no expression on his face, and then uttered two words: "No, you are an important minister of the country, and you have to worry about many state affairs!"
When Wang Wenhua heard this, he was not happy, because Li Xuan, who was sitting at the top, was still expressionless as before. This kind of expression was not a good sign, so Wang Wenhua, who was only in his forties this year, could only be
He continued: "I beg you, Your Majesty, to take pity on my old bones and allow me to return to my hometown for retirement!"
Wang Wenhua, who was in his forties, described himself as if he were sixty or seventy years old. He even used words like "old bones", which made other ministers tremble with fear.
In front of His Majesty, even Wang Wenhua, who is in his forties, can only regard himself as an old man in his sixties or seventies begging for his bones!
It can also be seen from this that no matter what Wang Wenhua's final fate will be, it is enough to prove that His Majesty has a deep aversion to dealing with foreigners, especially the transfer of the interests of the country.
Wang Wenhua is not an ordinary civil servant, but one of the three earliest civil servants from Conglong. During the Huang Zhushan era, he was already one of the troika of the civil service system of the Tang Dynasty. Although this person usually flattered Li Xuan, it seemed that he
He is a favorite minister, but in fact, in the past few years, Wang Wenhua, Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu and others are no longer the ignorant Taoist priests and masters they used to be, but have become cabinet bosses who are almost extremely popular ministers.
However, today, Wang Wenhua, one of the three cabinet universities of the Tang Dynasty, is forced to beg for the bones because of the Hao Jing incident!
Everyone actually didn't understand this. In their opinion, Haojing was just a big barren land. Even if it was lost, it would be nothing.
But they didn't know that Li Xuan didn't give Wang Wenhua face today, and even forced Wang Wenhua to shout the words "begging for bones". Naturally, he had his intentions.
For Li Xuan, the Haojing incident is actually just a trivial matter. To put it bluntly, Haojing is indeed a barren land now. If it is sold, it will be sold. However, he can see the officials of his own Tang Dynasty in it.
, even worse than the officials of the Ming Dynasty.
When the Portuguese wanted to occupy Hong Kong a few years ago, the Ming Dynasty was still resolute and even fought a war with the Portuguese over it. But when it came to the Tang Dynasty, it was better because they didn't have strong ships and cannons.
When I drove over, I just made a random excuse, and the officials here just agreed.
This is simply incomprehensible!
Is this because of weakness, ignorance or taking advantage of the Portuguese?
Li Xuan didn't know, and he didn't care about it, but he wanted to let the officials of the Tang Dynasty know that on this matter, Li Xuan's attitude was extremely firm, and he dared to secretly transfer the land to other countries as leased areas.
This is a traitor. Later generations in the late Qing Dynasty lost power and humiliated the country. They signed such a humiliating treaty only after losing the war.
However, the officials in Guangzhou Prefecture were lucky. Before the war even started, they signed a treaty to sell their territory. If they hadn't seen the agreement, they wouldn't have known that the Portuguese had already occupied the territory at the end of last year.
Macau.
To put it bluntly, even if he wants to betray the country, the traitorous power belongs to Li Xuan. Why did a group of local officials in Guangzhou lease Macau out? Who gave them this kind of power?
Today they dare to sell Haojing (Macau) privately, tomorrow they can sell Hong Kong privately, and the next day they may be able to sell the entire Hainan Island!
Today, Li Xuan decided to beat these officials so that they will not betray the country if they have anything to do in the future. They feel that the land does not belong to their family. It does not hurt to sell it, so just sell it!
However, the beating of Wang Wenhua ends here. Wang Wenhua did not do this. He just attached his consent. Moreover, Wang Wenhua had no decision-making power on this. It was a group of bold people from Guangzhou who did this.
local officials, especially Chen Daoquan, the governor of Guangzhou who was responsible for contacting the Folangji people and reaching the matter.
So he still said: "No!"
Without waiting for Wang Wenhua to say anything about begging for bones for the third time, he continued: "But since Wang Aiqing is not in good health, she shouldn't be so tired. She won't have to be on duty in the imperial study room in the future!"
Hearing this, Wang Wenhua finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was regrettable and heartbreaking to lose the duty in the imperial study room, at least he could keep his official title and even the title of bachelor.
It's just that he has some doubts. After losing the right to be on duty, will he still be a bachelor?
The Imperial Study Room is on duty. This is not an official position, but a dispatch. The full name is the "Royal Study Room on Duty Minister". Li Xuan set up an Imperial Study Room in the palace, next to the Hanlin Academy. However, this Imperial Study Room is not actually Li Xuan's.
He has his own office where he can work or read. This imperial study is actually the place where the minister on duty in the imperial study is on duty in the palace.
The ministers on duty in the imperial study room have no quota, no rank, no salary. They are personally appointed by the emperor and participate in military and state affairs. Generally speaking, they are somewhat similar to the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty and the military department of the Qing Dynasty, but their power is much smaller.
At present, Li Xuan selects a number of people from the Privy Council, Naval Command, Cabinet Ministries, Imperial Academy and other institutions to be appointed as the Minister on Duty in the Imperial Study Room. Currently, the Minister on Duty in the Imperial Study Room for the Army is Zeng Ziwen, and for the Navy, it is Bao Yi.
Fen, the cabinet members are Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, and Qian Mengjiu, only five people in total.
In addition to the ministers on duty, there are eight "ministers walking in the imperial study room" with smaller powers, but they are all military generals or senior officials above the level of minister of the cabinet.
However, although the imperial study room has now developed into a military aircraft office of the Qing Dynasty, it is still not obvious. Therefore, although Wang Wenhua feels a little confused, he does not feel anything wrong about losing this job. After all, the title of bachelor is retained.
He is still one of the three great scholars of the Tang Dynasty, the elder of the Tang Dynasty, and still holds a high position of authority.
Wang Wenhua gave him a scare and then gave him a symbolic punishment, but for the local officials in Guangzhou, Li Xuan was not going to let them go lightly. Damn, I haven't betrayed the country yet, so you just give them.
If you buy it, what do you think of me as the emperor?
Even if you want to betray your country, you have to get my permission. You dare to make your own decisions. You are so impatient!
Traitor, what a great power this is, it belongs to me, and no one is allowed to infringe on it!
So he went on to say: "Drawing the decree, Guangzhou colleague Chen Daoquan, who secretly colluded with the Folangji people and rented the country without authorization, was immediately dismissed from his post and investigated. The rest of the people involved in this matter were also dismissed and investigated. It was strictly investigated whether these people had any role in this matter.
If there is any dereliction of duty, accepting bribes from barbarians, etc., the crime will be increased to the third level. In addition, if the Guangzhou magistrate is not strict in his control and neglects to report the matter in time, he will be demoted three levels and transferred to another person!"
Li Xuan just said a few words to clean up the local officials in Guangzhou. Although it was said that they were dismissed and investigated, the dismissal was only the prerequisite, and the investigation was the focus. The final investigation results could only be two: either dereliction of duty.
, or accepting bribes!
Because in the case of the concession in Macau, if you accept benefits from foreigners to get the concession, you are accepting bribes. If it is confiscated, it is dereliction of duty! And no matter which of the two, there will be no good end!
In addition, Li Xuan felt that it was necessary to take this opportunity to clarify something, that is, to stop local officials from indiscriminately meddling in foreign affairs.
In the past, it was not clear in the relevant agencies of the Tang Dynasty whether these foreign affairs belonged directly to the central government or the local government, so many local officials felt that they also had this power when dealing with foreigners.
But in fact, they do not have this power!
Therefore, he continued: "It is proposed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs be established under the cabinet, and the Domain Affairs Department of the Ministry of Rites be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From now on, all foreign affairs related to feudal affairs, barbarian affairs, etc. will be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other ministries and localities will be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Officials are not allowed to interfere!”
Foreign affairs cannot be left to local officials to handle by themselves. That is simply not feasible. Who knows if the local officials below will have a fever again and sign some concession treaty with those foreigners. This Haojing incident once
That's enough, he doesn't want to do it a second time!
After handling these matters, Li Xuan said: "As for the Haojing matter, the Guangzhou government is ordered to let the Folangji people there leave immediately. If necessary, they can go to live in the commercial zones of the two trading ports of Guangzhou and Lianzhou.
In addition, all coastal prefectures and counties are clearly warned that except for designated trading ports, other coastal ports are not allowed to trade with foreigners privately, and foreign merchants are not allowed to go ashore!"
At this time, someone came out and asked: "What if the Folangji people in Haojing are unwilling to leave?"